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Pilot action(s)�Romania

István Szakáts�AltArt Foundation

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Proposed by Social Fiber Association, the Pilot involves participants in horizontal co-design, featuring a mix of creative processes (drawing / music / verbal expression) and recreational meetings (outings / play).

Participants are invited to find their voice (self-expression), explore their relational identity (family / friends / community / society) and acquire "soft" skills (negotiations / solidarity / so.)

The Pilot follows a series of aims rooted in Critical Pedagogy (Freire, 1970) questioning the efficacy of societal support (lack of social services) in a field fraught with deep social disbalances (structural oppression).

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  • 16 participants (4-17yo)
  • 20 workshops
  • 11 months

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Pedagogical aims followed (eg.)

    • ability to think and create as a group, listen to each other and build ideas that complement each other strengthen the ability to think and create as a group
    • understand the connections in the community and to build trusting relationships with the families of participants
    • strengthen the ability of communal thinking and to create a new perspective on the children's neighbourhood in Pata-Rât.
    • importance of preserving traditions.
    • strengthening participants ability to be actively attentive to others
    • (so.)

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PatArt / Key findings

1. Need for an emancipatory frame vs. current state of art

2. Need for Integrated approach vs. current state of art

3. Need for long-term approach vs. current state of art

4. Need for multigenerational approach vs. current state of art

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Main conclusion: rethinking conceptual / financial / operational logic

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PatArt / Key findings

1. Need for an emancipatory frame vs. current state of art

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"Defining emancipation in their own terms" vs.

Current state of art: "The hand that gives and the hand that takes", philanthropic in best case, regenerating oppression in worse

Need: rethinking conceptual / financial / operational logic for self-emancipation

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PatArt / Key findings

2. Need for Integrated approach vs. current state of art

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Housing / Education / Work / Culture / Political self-organization:

Which first?

Current state of art: one- or bi-dimensional approaches

Reason: no financing frames, no consortia

Need: rethinking conceptual / financial / operational logic for multi-dimensionality

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3. Need for long-term approach vs. current state of art

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Community: survivalism: no future, immediacy

Current state of art: project-based (years at most)

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Need: rethinking conceptual / financial / operational logic for decades

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4. Need for multigeneration approach vs. current state of art

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Oppressed communities as communities of memory

Current state of art: narrow age-range targets

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Need: rethinking conceptual / financial / operational logic for relationality

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